Who Is a Muslim? orientalism and literary populisms
Publication details: Orient Blackswan, 2021 Himayatnagar:Description: x, 257p. ; hb. ; 24cmISBN:- 9789354420467
- 891.43909 WAS
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891.43271 BHA Andha yug : | 891.4337 SAX Greatest Hindi stories ever told | 891.437 BAH Dharti ki pukar = धरती की पुकार | 891.43909 WAS Who Is a Muslim? orientalism and literary populisms | 891.43913 MIR Selected ghazals and other poems | 891.43913 NAR Urdu ghazal: a gift of India's composite culture | 891.4409 TAG Picture of my early life: Jibansmriti |
Includes index
Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship. "Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan-popular novels, short stories, television serials-is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question "Who is a Muslim?," a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship
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